Defense spending

Should We Cut Defense Spending? Actually, that’s the Wrong Question.

Should We Cut Defense Spending? Actually, that’s the Wrong Question.

"It’s not just about cutting.  It’s about doing the work to make smarter choices.”

4 years ago

Trump Signs Ridiculous Spending Bill While Repeating Lie That Our Military Is Depleted

After creating chaos earlier this morning by threatening to veto the proposed Senate and Congressional omnibus spending bill, adding an additional…

7 years ago

Opinion: Trump’s Moronic Lies – Germany Doesn’t Owe America Vast Sums of Money

"[Trump] keeps saying that ‘we’ need to be paid by the Europeans for the fact that we have troops in…

8 years ago

Democrat Adam Schiff Tells Trump To Stop Treating NATO Like a Protection Racket

"Glad you think it was great, @POTUS. Would have been greater if you didn't treat NATO like protection racket, or…

8 years ago

Trump Says His Budget Makes Safety ‘No. 1 Priority’ But it Will Kill Americans

Trump's budget directs dollars away from the people who need it most, vulnerable children and the elderly, to fill the…

8 years ago

Republicans Use Deficit Lie To Try To Cut Health Care While Increasing Military Spending

Republicans are looking for ways to increase the already bloated defense budget they claim is woefully underfunded. And, as is…

10 years ago

Even Conservatives are Finding Nearly Two Trillion in Potential Savings in the Defense Budget

Long a target for cuts by liberals, two fiscally conservatives groups have now also joined the call for reduced defense…

12 years ago

The Koch Brothers Take Credit for Imposing Economic Hardship on Millions of Americans

Koch brothers' front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), sent congratulations to Republicans and their supporters around the country for helping…

12 years ago

The GOP’s Dystopian Dream of America’s Future

Why should the federal deficit scare us compared to an uninhabitable planet? Aren't mountains without tops more frightening than an…

13 years ago

When It Comes to War Mitt Romney is George W. Bush With Magic Underwear

If Willard Romney controls the world's most powerful military will repeat the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters because he is, after…

13 years ago

War Criminals for Romney: Bush Hops Aboard Mitt’s 2012 Titanic

What Americans should remember is that a convicted war criminal and arguably the worst president in history just endorsed his…

13 years ago

Paul Ryan Shows His Heartless Contempt for Women and Low-Income Americans

Paul Ryan's description of a fictional woman who lives a decent life as "creepy" because of a caring government defines…

13 years ago

GOP Scam Artists Turn A Deaf Ear To Catholic Bishops When It Comes To Aid For The Poor

Republicans scammed the Catholic Bishops on birth control, and now they are ignoring the same Bishops' pleas that programs that…

13 years ago

Mitt Romney Embraces Failure By Doubling Down On Bush’s Cuts For Millionaires

Mitt Romney’s tax proposal would double the size of the Bush cuts with no plan to fund the cuts other…

13 years ago

Welfare or Warfare: Keeping Defense Contractors Rich While America Crumbles

Republicans want to take the country back to the 1950s, and they want to cut taxes for the wealthy claiming…

14 years ago

John McCain’s Eternal War Against Gays At Home and American Soldiers Abroad

John McCain is a war hero, and advocates permanent wars regardless the cost in lives and drain on the economy.…

14 years ago

Obama Administration Takes Aim at Defense Spending Overruns

"A spigot of defense spending opened up after 9/11, yet for years, there has been dismal oversight of contractors handling…

15 years ago